The Büro Center Nibelungenplatz (also known as BCN, formerly Shell Tower) is a skyscraper in Frankfurt. The 1966-constructed building was one of the first completed building on 50 meter-high towers in Frankfurt, and to this day with 110 meters the tallest building in the suburb of Northrend.
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The skyscraper is located at Nibelungenplatz, an important and busy junction between the districts of Northrend, West and East Northrend. There, take the Nibelungen and Rothschild Avenue (Avenue Square, B8) at the Friedberger Landstraße (B3) and the neighborhood streets Nordendstraße and Hallgarten road.
The tower was designed by Novotny Mähner Assoziierte and part of the entire northern Alleenring comprehensive development plan, which provided for conversion to freeway and spot high-rises at all major intersections. The plan was however not followed up at another building at the intersection with the highway Eschersheimer further. The skyscraper at Nibelungenplatz was built from 1964 to 1966 for the oil companies Shell and was then the first skyscraper in Frankfurt, which was a 100-meter. In the cellar - the fear of nuclear war at that time according to established - for an emergency fallout shelter, which is used as a garage.
The original plain the international style of the following facade hung aluminum plates no longer exists. In 1993 the tower was renovated, while it was covered in the current post-modern glass and equipped with a panoramic lift.